Posted in News on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From The Hollywood Reporter:
More Samuel L. Jackson goodness is coming our way. Again.
Having most recently played a dirty cop in “Lakeview Terrace,” Jackson is set to star as a bad guy again in Columbia Pictures’ remake of Berry Gordy’s 1985 cult classic “The Last Dragon.”
Jackson will play Sho’nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, a role played [...]
Posted in Reviews on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
George W. Bush, a name synonymous with the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the ensuing War on Terror, the quandary in Iraq, and essentially politics in the 21st century. Honestly though, who is this guy? He’s a character– a Texas oilman cowboy Christian– but what’s he like behind closed doors? We as Americans, and manifestly [...]
Posted in News on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Variety:
Mike Nichols is set to direct a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low” for Miramax Films.
Written by David Mamet and produced by Scott Rudin, the film hasn’t started casting. Martin Scorsese originally commissioned Mamet to write the screenplay back in 1999; it took two years for Rudin to pull the rights together. Scorsese [...]
Posted in Reviews on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If in the mood for some tense, visually disturbing South Korean cinema, I recommend Hong-jin Na’s debut film, The Chaser. Led by the brilliant Yun-Seok Kim, this movie has both horror and suspense that I have not experienced so viscerally in quite a while. It reinforces my growing disposition that South Korean film contains a [...]
